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Introduction 3

Highlights 4

Significant Findings 5

Tables 8

Table 1. Women and Minorities at Law Firms — 2009-2018 9

Table 2. Partner and Associate Demographics at Law Firms — 2009-2018 9

Table 3. Women and Minorities at Law Firms — Partners and Associates — 2018 10

Table 4. Women and Minorities at Law Firms — Total Lawyers and Summer Associates — 2018 12

Table 5. Partner Demographics at Law Firms — 2018 14

Table 6. Associate Demographics at Law Firms — 2018 16

Table 7. Lawyers with Disabilities — 2018 18

Table 8. LGBT Lawyers — 2018 18

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NALP Executive Director James Leipold commenting on these new findings noted, “The story of NALP’s 2018 Report on Diversity in U.S. Law Firms is a good news/bad news story. On the good news side, repre-sentation of women associates has finally rebounded and surpassed pre-recession highs for the first time, the jump in the representation of minorities among partners is the largest since NALP began tracking this data, and the number and percentage of LGBT lawyers reached all-time highs with the percentage of LGBT summer associates at firms of more than 700 hundred lawyers reaching 6.42%. On the bad news side, representation of Black/African-American associates remains below its pre-recession level, the representation of Black/African-American partners has barely changed since the recession, and minority women continue to be the most underrepresented group at the partnership level, with Black/African-American women least well represented of all.”

Leipold continued, “There are also good news/bad news stories to be told when we parse the data by geography. Miami, for instance, stands alone with its law firms reporting a higher percentage of minority partners, a higher percentage of minority women partners, a higher percentage of minority associates, a higher percentage of minority women associates, and a higher percentage of minority and minority women summer associates than law firms in any other city. On the other hand, Boston law firms report minority partner and associate numbers well below the national mean, and well below other cities of its size and importance in the legal market, and report that just 0.9% of the partners in that city are Black/African-American, and only 0.26 of the partners are Black/African-American women. Worse, firms in Phoenix, report no Black/African-American partners. So, while progress towards greater diversity and inclusion among lawyers in US law firms continues to be made, and underlying population demographics play a role, much, much work remains to be done.”

IntroductionWomen and Black/African Americans made small gains in representation at major U.S. law firms in 2018 compared with 2017, according to the latest law firm demographic findings from the National Association for Law Placement (NALP). However, representation of Black/African-Americans among associates remains below 2009 levels. NALP’s recent analyses of the 2018-2019 NALP Directory of Legal Employers (NDLE) — the annual compendium of legal employer data published by NALP — shows that women and minorities continued to make small gains in their representation among law firm partners in 2018. However, the overall percentage of women associates has decreased almost as often as not since 2009, and the percentage of Black/African-American associates has declined most years since 2009, and despite small increases in the last three years remains below its 2009 level.

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• Despite small increases in the past three years, representation of Black/African-American associates remains just below its 2009 level of 4.66% and is now 4.48%.

PARTNERS

• An increase of about seven-tenths of a percentage point in representation of minorities among partners is noted as the largest over the entire span of NALP’s compilation of these figures.

• Minority women continue to be the most dramatically underrepresented group at the partnership level.

• Representation of Black/African-Americans among partners has barely increased since 2009.

SUMMER ASSOCIATES

• Over one-third — 35% — of summer associates were racial/ethnic minorities.

LAWYERS WITH DISABILITIES

• The reporting of lawyers with disabilities (of any race or gender) remains scant, both at the associate and partner levels.

LGBT LAWYERS

• There are wide geographic disparities in these numbers, and in fact about 55% of the reported LGBT lawyers are accounted for by just four cities: New York City, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

• The percentage of LGBT summer associates continues to suggest that there is still potential for some growth of the presence of LGBT associates at these firms.

• In firms of more than 700 lawyers, the percentage of LGBT associates has exceeded 5% in the five most recent years. In firms of 251+ lawyers, the figures were above 5% for the first time.

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ASSOCIATES: Representation of women, minorities, and minority women among associates saw small gains in 2018. Representation of women has climbed for three years in a row and now exceeds the high previously reached in 2009.

NALP’s analysis found that representation of minority associates has continued to increase since 2010 (from 19.53% to 24.22%) following widespread layoffs in 2009. Over the same period of time, however, representation of women finally saw a net increase in 2018. In 2018, the per-centage of women stood at 45.91%, compared with 45.48% in 2017, and higher than the 2009 figure, but by just 0.25 percentage points.

In contrast to the pattern for women as a whole, represen-tation of minority women among associates has increased from about 11% (2009-2012) to 13.52% in 2018, though some backsliding in 2010 is noted. (See Table 1.)

Much of the increase in minority representation since 2011 can be attributed to increased representation of Asians among associates. While overall minority representation fell in 2010, this was not the case for Asian associates. Asian associates now make up 11.69% of all associates, with representation having risen about 2.4 percentage points, from 9.28% in 2009 to 11.69% in 2018. Hispanic associate representation has also risen. After fluctuating between 3.81% and 3.95% of associates between 2009 and 2014, Hispanics have slightly outnumbered Black/African-Americans among associates since 2015. In 2018, Hispanics accounted for 4.71% of associates. In contrast to trends among Asian associates and even Hispanic associates, representation of Black/African-Americans among associates fell every year from 2010 to 2015. Despite small increases in the past

three years, representation of Black/African-American associates remains just below its 2009 level of 4.66% and is now 4.48%. (See Table 2.)

PARTNERS: In 2018, representation of women, minorities, and minority women among partners in law firms across the nation all increased a bit over 2017.

During the 26 years that NALP has been compiling this information, law firms have made steady, though very slow, incremental progress in increasing the presence of women and minorities in the partner ranks. In 2018, that slow upward trend continued, with minorities accounting for 9.13% of partners in the nation’s major firms, and women accounting for 23.36% of the partners in these firms, up from 8.42% and 22.70%, respectively, in 2017. An increase of about seven-tenths of a percentage point in representation of minorities among partners is noted as the largest over the entire span of NALP’s compilation of these figures. Increases have generally been in the 0.1 to 0.4 percentage point range. The next largest increases of about 0.5 percentage points occurred only in 2008 and 2016.

Nonetheless, over this period, the gains have been minimal at best. In 1993 minorities accounted for 2.55% of partners and women accounted for 12.27% of partners. And at just 3.19% of partners in 2018, minority women continue to be the most dramatically underrepresented group at the partnership level, a pattern that holds across all firm sizes and most jurisdictions. The representation of minority women partners is somewhat higher (3.66%) at the largest firms with more than 700 lawyers. Minority men, meanwhile, accounted for just 5.94% of partners in 2018, compared with 5.52% in 2017. This means that the increase in minorities among partners was not quite three-tenths of one percent

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for women and somewhat more than four-tenths of one percent for men.

But, as is the case with associates, most of the increase in minority representation among partners since 2009 can be attributed to an increase of Asian and Hispanic male partners in particular. Representation of Black/African-Americans among partners has barely changed over the period and was 1.83% in 2018, flat compared with 2017, and not much higher than the 1.71% figure in 2009. (See Table 2.)

LAWYERS OVERALL: Overall, representation of women among lawyers as a whole was up, and has more than recouped losses in 2010, 2011, and 2015, and has exceeded the 2009 level since 2014.

This increase reflects both the increase among partners and associates noted above and also among lawyers other than partners and associates such as “of counsel” and staff attorneys who, in 2018, accounted for almost 15% of attor-neys at these firms. For example, women accounted for 41% of these other attorneys in 2018, compared with 40% in 2016. Although the overall figure for women fell in 2010 and 2011, and again in 2015, the overall percentage for women (35.41% in 2018) and has exceeded the 2009 figure of 32.97% since 2014.

The representation of minorities among lawyers as a whole rose some in 2018, to 16.10%. Consistent with findings for minority women among partners and associates, represen-tation of minority women as a whole also increased slightly from 7.54% in 2017 and minority women now make up 8.08% of lawyers at these law firms. (See Table 1.)

SUMMER ASSOCIATES: The representation of women and minorities in the summer associate ranks compares much more favorably to the population of recent law school graduates. The

2018 minority representation figure of just about 35% is an almost 3 percentage point increase over the 2017 figure of 32.33%.

According to the American Bar Association (ABA), since 2000, the percentage of minority law school graduates has ranged from 20% to 30%, while women have accounted for 46% to 49% of graduates with the high point coming in the mid-2000s. In 2018, women comprised 51.42% of summer associates, minorities accounted for 35.04%, and 20.83% of summer associates were minority women. Although measures for women have improved steadily since 2013, when representation of women as a whole and minority women specifically edged down, the gains in 2018 were preceded by an unchanged percentage for minorities as a whole in 2017 compared with 2016. It also should be kept in mind that these percentages are in the context of far fewer summer associates overall, with the number of summer associates off by about 25% compared with 2009, despite increases in the numbers after they bottomed out in 2010 and 2011. The number of summer associates accounted for in the Directory was about 6,900 in 2018, compared with about 7,100 in the prior two years.

LAWYERS WITH DISABILITIES: Lawyers with disabilities (of any race or gender) are scarce, both at the associate and partner levels.

The NALP Directory of Legal Employers also collects informa-tion about lawyers with disabilities, though this information is much less widely reported than information on race/ethnicity and gender, making it much harder to conclude anything definitive about the representation of lawyers with disabilities. About one-half of one percent of partners self-reported as having a disability in 2018, compared with about four-tenths of one percent in 2017 and about one-third of one percent from 2012-2016. Representation of associates with disabilities declined some, from 0.60% in 2017 to 0.46% in 2018. However, these figures are still tiny,

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making it difficult to draw any conclusions about movement going forward. Although the presence of individuals with disabilities among law school graduates is not precisely known, other NALP research suggests that between 1 and 2% of graduates self-identify as having a disability. Disability figures for partners, associates, and all attorneys with dis-abilities are reported in Table 7.

LGBT LAWYERS:The percentage of LGBT lawyers has generally been trending upward over the period since 2002 when NALP first began compiling these figures, and small increases from 2017 to 2018 occurred across all lawyer types.

The overall percentage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-gender (LGBT) lawyers reported in 2018 increased to 2.86% compared with 2.64% in 2017. Increases were seen across all lawyer types and ranged from less than 0.1 percentage point for counsel and non-traditional track attorneys to about 0.35 percentage points for associates. The percentage of offices reporting LGBT counts has been relatively stable at about 90% of offices since 2008. About half of these reporting offices reported at least one LGBT lawyer among partners and associates in 2018.

The overall count in 2018 of 2,827 LGBT lawyers is up by just over 6% from 2017. Over a longer span of time, the number now is over 2.5 times larger than it was in the 2002 NDLE, when the numbers were first collected/compiled. In the 2002 NDLE, the number of LGBT lawyers reported was just over 1,100 — less than 1% of the total lawyers represented. It took until 2012 for the overall percentage to exceed 2%.

The presence of LGBT lawyers continues to be highest among associates, at 3.80% (see Table 8), and is up from the figure of 3.45% reported in 2017. LGBT associates are also better represented at large law firms — with firms of 701+ lawyers reporting 4.17% LGBT associates. Firms of 701+ lawyers

reported 2.33% LGBT partners, compared to 2.17% in 2017. For smaller firms, the percentages are closer to 2%.

There are wide geographic disparities in these numbers, and in fact about 55% of the reported LGBT lawyers are accounted for by just four cities: New York City, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. These same four cities accounted for about 39% of the not quite 99,000 lawyers included in these analyses. Thus the percentage of LGBT lawyers in these cities is correspondingly higher — about 4% overall (and highest in San Francisco specifically at 5.8%) compared with the 2.86% nationwide figure. In these same four cities, the percentage of LGBT summer associates is also higher — about 7% compared with 5.73% nationwide.

The percentage of LGBT summer associates continues to suggest that there is still potential for some growth of the presence of LGBT associates at these firms. The overall figure for summer associates was 5.73%, compared with 4.66% in 2017. In firms of more than 700 lawyers, it has exceeded 5% in the five most recent years. In firms of 251+ lawyers, the figures were above 5% for the first time.

BREADTH OF LAWYER REPRESENTATION IN THE NALP DIRECTORY The 2018-2019 NALP Directory of Legal Employers (NDLE), which provides the individual firm listings on which these aggregate analyses are based, includes attorney race/ethnicity and gender information for over 109,000 partners, associ-ates, and other lawyers in 1,009 offices, and for almost 6,900 summer associates in 725 offices nationwide. The NDLE is available online at www.nalpdirectory.com.

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For purposes of the figures in Tables 1-6, minority attorneys include those whose race or ethnicity is Black, Hispanic, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and those of multi-racial heritage, as reported by the law firms in the NDLE. The partner numbers include both equity and non-equity partners. The data in Table 2 (“Partner and Associate Demographics at Law Firms — 2009-2018”) does not include data for minority attorneys whose race or ethnicity is American Indian/Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and those of multi-racial heritage, as these groups are a very small fraction of minorities reported.

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Table 1. Women and Minorities at Law Firms — 2009-2018

Partners Associates Total Lawyers Summer Associates

% Women

% Minority

% Minority Women

% Women

% Minority

% Minority Women

% Women

% Minority

% Minority Women

% Women

% Minority

% Minority Women

2009 19.21% 6.05% 1.88% 45.66% 19.67% 11.02% 32.97% 12.59% 6.33% 46.62% 24.04% 12.90%2010 19.43 6.16 1.95 45.41 19.53 10.90 32.69 12.40 6.20 47.35 26.99 14.922011 19.54 6.56 2.04 45.35 19.90 10.96 32.61 12.70 6.23 47.71 27.11 15.192012 19.91 6.71 2.16 45.05 20.32 11.08 32.67 12.91 6.32 46.26 29.55 16.262013 20.22 7.10 2.26 44.79 20.93 11.29 32.78 13.36 6.49 45.32 29.51 15.782014 21.05 7.33 2.45 44.94 21.63 11.51 33.48 13.83 6.74 46.33 30.27 16.632015 21.46 7.52 2.55 44.68 22.00 11.78 33.38 13.97 6.81 47.78 31.16 16.992016 22.13 8.05 2.76 45.00 22.72 12.42 33.89 14.62 7.23 48.71 32.33 18.052017 22.70 8.42 2.90 45.48 23.32 12.86 34.54 15.18 7.54 49.87 32.33 18.232018 23.36 9.13 3.19 45.91 24.22 13.52 35.41 16.10 8.08 51.42 35.04 20.83

Source: The NALP Directory of Legal Employers.

Table 2. Partner and Associate Demographics at Law Firms — 2009-2018

Partners Associates

AsianBlack/

African-American Hispanic AsianBlack/

African-American HispanicTotal % % Women Total % % Women Total % % Women Total % % Women Total % % Women Total % % Women

2009 2.20% 0.76% 1.71% 0.57% 1.65% 0.41% 9.28% 5.12% 4.66% 2.93% 3.89% 2.00%2010 2.30 0.81 1.70 0.56 1.70 0.44 9.39 5.15 4.36 2.75 3.81 1.942011 2.36 0.82 1.71 0.58 1.92 0.48 9.65 5.31 4.29 2.61 3.83 1.922012 2.48 0.89 1.73 0.60 1.91 0.48 10.01 5.40 4.19 2.55 3.90 1.952013 2.67 0.91 1.78 0.60 1.99 0.54 10.48 5.64 4.10 2.43 3.82 1.892014 2.74 0.99 1.72 0.63 2.16 0.60 10.80 5.81 4.01 2.31 3.95 1.892015 2.89 1.07 1.77 0.64 2.19 0.63 10.93 6.00 3.95 2.25 4.28 2.032016 3.13 1.17 1.81 0.64 2.31 0.68 11.25 6.35 4.11 2.32 4.42 2.152017 3.31 1.23 1.83 0.66 2.40 0.73 11.40 6.52 4.28 2.42 4.57 2.232018 3.63 1.38 1.83 0.68 2.49 0.77 11.69 6.64 4.48 2.55 4.71 2.45

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Table 3. Women and Minorities at Law Firms — Partners and Associates — 2018

Partners Associates

Total # % Women

% Minority

% Minority Women

Total # % Women

% Minority

% Minority Women

# of Offices

Total 47,625 23.36 9.13 3.19 45,807 45.91 24.22 13.52 1,009By # of Lawyers Firm-wide:100 or fewer 2,759 22.15 7.94 3.01 1,631 40.96 19.87 9.75 90101-250 8,497 23.18 6.63 2.42 4,815 45.71 18.50 10.55 134251-500 9,577 24.05 8.40 3.08 6,587 45.10 22.62 12.40 199501-700 5,779 22.70 8.67 2.86 5,856 45.44 24.42 13.61 104701+ 21,013 23.47 10.76 3.66 26,918 46.55 25.86 14.54 482

Offices in:Atlanta 1,051 21.98 7.99 2.66 919 47.01 20.46 11.43 23Austin 301 25.58 11.96 4.32 199 42.71 20.60 13.07 17Boston area 1,563 24.25 4.48 1.66 1,832 45.85 19.43 11.19 34Charlotte 430 16.05 4.65 1.40 297 42.09 14.14 7.74 13Chicago 3,260 22.94 7.91 2.70 2,575 44.12 21.32 11.18 53Cincinnati 308 24.35 3.25 0.97 152 41.45 9.87 4.61 6Cleveland 405 18.52 2.96 0.74 283 43.46 5.65 3.53 6Columbus 378 24.07 6.88 2.91 199 42.71 15.58 7.04 10Dallas 985 20.30 9.75 3.65 908 40.97 21.92 9.69 32Denver 511 27.59 6.65 2.15 491 48.27 13.85 8.55 22Detroit area 550 25.82 6.18 2.55 227 44.93 17.18 9.25 9Ft. Lauderdale/W. Palm Beach 158 23.42 6.33 3.16 95 46.32 14.74 10.53 8Houston 1,129 17.98 12.05 3.90 1,281 39.27 25.92 12.02 43Indianapolis 335 24.48 2.99 1.19 162 50.62 14.20 9.26 6Kansas City, MO 493 24.54 3.85 1.22 274 47.08 13.50 7.30 7Los Angeles area 1,832 24.45 16.65 6.33 2,294 48.78 32.13 18.09 72Miami 384 25.78 37.76 11.72 282 47.87 47.16 25.53 14Milwaukee 631 25.04 3.96 1.90 320 38.75 8.13 3.13 8

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Total #%

Women%

Minority

% Minority Women Total #

% Women

% Minority

% Minority Women

# of Offices

Minneapolis 1,127 29.19 4.08 1.86 606 41.75 13.70 6.77 20New York City 6,254 20.37 10.89 3.31 12,270 45.76 28.40 16.19 95Northern NJ/Newark area 426 19.48 5.63 1.88 331 47.13 21.15 11.18 8Northern Virginia 152 15.79 6.58 2.63 130 49.23 22.31 10.77 8Orange Co., CA 510 18.04 12.94 4.12 463 41.47 32.40 15.77 17Philadelphia 630 19.84 5.24 1.90 538 50.00 14.87 9.11 11Phoenix 524 22.33 6.87 1.91 214 44.86 14.95 6.07 12Pittsburgh 325 21.23 4.31 1.54 234 40.17 8.97 3.85 6Portland, OR area 448 27.01 6.25 2.68 204 43.14 16.18 6.37 11Salt Lake City 156 16.03 3.85 1.28 102 30.39 7.84 2.94 7San Diego 277 21.66 13.36 4.33 355 39.72 27.61 12.96 16San Francisco 1,311 27.99 15.48 5.34 1,581 53.26 33.08 20.24 49San Jose area 709 22.99 19.18 6.35 1,189 47.35 42.72 23.13 36Seattle area 831 28.76 10.11 3.85 551 46.28 24.68 14.16 23St. Louis 774 24.81 5.43 1.42 394 45.69 16.75 9.39 11Tampa 145 15.86 5.52 0.69 88 43.18 12.50 6.82 7Washington, DC 4,558 23.56 10.14 3.93 4,947 46.31 23.47 13.40 96Wilmington 282 22.34 4.96 2.13 279 41.94 11.83 6.45 13

States:Other areas in Connecticut 408 26.72 4.90 2.94 247 51.01 17.41 12.15 6Other areas in Florida 221 21.72 4.07 0.90 110 49.09 14.55 5.45 11Kentucky 351 25.07 2.28 0.57 130 46.92 12.31 6.15 5Other areas in New York State 513 23.39 3.51 0.78 224 49.55 9.82 5.80 6

Source: The 2018-2019 NALP Directory of Legal Employers. Some city information includes one or more offices in adjacent suburbs. Orange County includes offices in Costa Mesa, Irvine, and Newport Beach. The San Jose area includes offices in Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto and E. Palo Alto, Redwood Shores/Redwood City, and San Jose. The Los Angeles area includes offices in Santa Monica and Long Beach. The Northern New Jersey/Newark area includes offices in Newark, Roseland, Florham Park, Hackensack, Morristown, and Westfield. Northern Virginia includes offices in McLean/Tyson’s Corner, and Reston. State figures exclude cities reported separately. For multi-office firms that reported only firmwide figures, the information was attributed to the reporting city if at least 60% of the firms lawyers are in that city.

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Table 4. Women and Minorities at Law Firms — Total Lawyers and Summer Associates — 2018

Total Lawyers Summer Associates

Total #%

Women % Minority% Minority

Women# of

Offices Total #%

Women % Minority% Minority

WomenTotal 109,459 35.41 16.10 8.08 1,009 6,875 51.42 35.04 20.83

By # of Lawyers Firm-wide:100 or fewer 5,290 31.70 11.89 5.44 90 245 46.12 28.57 16.73101-250 15,349 31.79 10.59 5.15 134 592 52.03 32.09 20.78251-500 19,121 34.12 13.84 6.82 199 921 50.16 36.16 20.63501-700 13,694 34.98 16.19 8.07 104 918 52.94 35.40 21.90701+ 56,005 37.29 18.75 9.57 482 4,199 51.58 35.51 20.89

Offices in:Atlanta 2,403 35.96 13.86 7.12 23 144 55.56 22.92 14.58Austin 589 33.11 15.96 7.81 17 59 44.07 25.42 15.25Boston area 3,879 37.46 12.32 6.63 34 271 56.46 25.83 18.82Charlotte 864 29.63 9.14 4.51 13 46 43.48 30.43 17.39Chicago 6,638 32.98 13.60 6.40 53 392 46.94 30.61 18.11Cincinnati 523 31.36 5.35 2.10 6 18 33.33 27.78 11.11Cleveland 819 30.77 4.88 2.44 6 39 48.72 15.38 10.26Columbus 703 30.87 9.25 3.98 10 34 67.65 32.35 23.53Dallas 2,223 31.31 15.52 6.30 32 173 46.24 23.12 10.98Denver 1,202 38.02 9.73 4.99 22 39 56.41 33.33 25.64Detroit area 881 32.24 9.53 4.88 9 45 44.44 20.00 15.56Ft. Lauderdale/ W. Palm Beach 282 32.62 10.99 6.74 8 — — — —

Houston 2,730 31.14 19.05 8.17 43 296 51.01 27.70 15.88Indianapolis 565 34.51 7.43 4.42 6 32 37.50 28.13 9.38Kansas City, MO 917 35.33 7.09 3.60 7 39 48.72 23.08 10.26Los Angeles area 4,694 38.56 24.86 12.82 72 270 54.81 40.00 22.96Miami 741 36.84 41.03 17.95 14 30 50.00 60.00 33.33Milwaukee 1,090 29.91 5.05 2.02 8 49 55.10 28.57 20.41Minneapolis 1,973 33.76 7.20 3.50 20 90 55.56 43.33 22.22New York City 21,346 37.54 21.67 11.42 95 2,270 50.44 39.91 23.35Northern NJ/Newark area 935 33.37 11.98 5.67 8 43 62.79 23.26 20.93

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Total # % Women % Minority % Minority

Women# of

Offices Total # % Women % Minority % Minority

WomenNorthern Virginia 334 32.63 13.47 5.99 8 19 31.58 31.58 15.79Orange Co., CA 1,063 31.33 22.86 10.35 17 84 42.86 41.67 20.24Philadelphia 1,397 35.29 9.23 4.80 11 40 50.00 27.50 17.50Phoenix 830 29.16 10.48 3.61 12 42 50.00 30.95 19.05Pittsburgh 604 29.64 6.29 2.65 6 — — — —Portland, OR area 742 33.29 9.57 4.18 11 28 39.29 28.57 10.71Salt Lake City 292 22.95 5.82 2.05 7 — — — —San Diego 729 33.88 20.71 9.47 16 49 46.94 32.65 18.37San Francisco 3,291 42.05 24.46 13.55 49 232 53.88 44.40 28.45San Jose area 2,112 39.30 33.10 16.48 36 219 47.95 47.03 26.48Seattle area 1,587 36.61 15.82 8.07 23 64 43.75 43.75 23.44St. Louis 1,377 32.61 8.93 4.21 11 53 50.94 22.64 13.21Tampa 266 27.44 7.89 3.38 7 — — — —Washington, DC 11,597 36.13 16.80 8.67 96 740 55.27 34.19 21.89Wilmington 614 32.41 8.14 3.91 13 72 41.67 23.61 15.28

States:Other areas in Connecticut 803 36.86 8.97 5.60 6 27 59.26 55.56 33.33

Other areas in Florida 389 33.93 7.46 3.08 11 17 58.82 5.88 0.00Kentucky 558 32.26 4.84 2.15 5 23 56.52 21.74 17.39Other areas in New York State 1,048 40.46 5.34 2.67 6 22 59.09 18.18 9.09

Source: The 2018-2019 NALP Directory of Legal Employers. Some city information includes one or more offices in adjacent suburbs. Orange County includes offices in Costa Mesa, Irvine, and Newport Beach. The San Jose area includes offices in Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto and E. Palo Alto, Redwood Shores/Redwood City, and San Jose. The Los Angeles area includes offices in Santa Monica and Long Beach. The Northern New Jersey/Newark area includes offices in Newark, Roseland, Florham Park, Hackensack, Morristown, and Westfield. Northern Virginia includes offices in McLean/Tyson’s Corner, and Reston. State figures exclude cities reported separately. For multi-office firms that reported only firmwide figures, the information was attributed to the reporting city if at least 60% of the firms lawyers are in that city.

Note: The number of offices reporting one or more summer associates, including demographic information, was 725. Dashes in the summer associates columns indicate that fewer than five offices in that city reported summer associates, or the total number of summer associates reported was less than 10.

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Table 5. Partner Demographics at Law Firms — 2018

Partners by Race or Ethnicity

All Partners Asian Black/African-American Hispanic

Total # % Minority

% Minority Women

Total % % Women Total % %

Women Total % % Women

# of Offices

Total 47,625 9.13 3.19 3.63 1.38 1.83 0.68 2.49 0.77 1,009By # of Lawyers Firm-wide:

100 or fewer lawyers 2,759 7.94 3.01 3.66 1.56 1.34 0.43 1.49 0.58 90101-250 lawyers 8,497 6.63 2.42 2.70 1.07 1.32 0.52 1.75 0.56 134251-500 lawyers 9,577 8.40 3.08 2.88 1.16 1.83 0.80 2.56 0.77 199501-700 lawyers 5,779 8.67 2.86 3.27 1.12 1.89 0.61 2.27 0.66 104701+ lawyers 21,013 10.76 3.66 4.44 1.65 2.09 0.75 2.96 0.90 482

Offices in:Atlanta 1,051 7.99 2.66 2.38 0.76 3.62 1.05 0.86 0.38 23Austin 301 11.96 4.32 1.66 0.33 2.99 1.33 6.64 2.66 17Boston area 1,563 4.48 1.66 1.98 1.02 0.90 0.26 1.22 0.32 34Charlotte 430 4.65 1.40 0.93 0.23 2.33 1.16 0.93 0.00 13Chicago 3,260 7.91 2.70 3.65 1.29 1.78 0.61 1.84 0.46 53Cincinnati 308 3.25 0.97 0.97 0.00 0.65 0.00 0.97 0.97 6Cleveland 405 2.96 0.74 1.23 0.25 1.23 0.49 0.25 0.00 6Columbus 378 6.88 2.91 1.85 1.32 2.91 1.06 0.53 0.00 10Dallas 985 9.75 3.65 2.34 0.71 1.73 0.91 3.45 1.12 32Denver 511 6.65 2.15 1.57 0.39 0.59 0.00 2.74 0.39 22Detroit area 550 6.18 2.55 1.27 0.55 3.09 1.82 0.91 0.00 9Ft. Lauderdale/W. Palm Beach 158 6.33 3.16 1.27 0.63 1.90 1.27 3.16 1.27 8

Houston 1,129 12.05 3.90 3.90 1.51 2.75 1.15 4.78 1.06 43Indianapolis 335 2.99 1.19 1.19 0.60 0.90 0.00 0.60 0.30 6Kansas City 493 3.85 1.22 0.81 0.41 2.03 0.20 0.61 0.20 7Los Angeles area 1,832 16.65 6.33 8.68 3.66 2.02 0.82 4.15 1.36 72Miami 384 37.76 11.72 1.30 1.04 2.86 1.30 32.81 9.11 14Milwaukee 631 3.96 1.90 0.79 0.48 0.63 0.16 2.22 1.11 8Minneapolis 1,127 4.08 1.86 1.15 0.89 0.62 0.35 0.80 0.00 20New York City 6,254 10.89 3.31 4.81 1.65 1.63 0.54 2.61 0.78 95Northern NJ/Newark area 426 5.63 1.88 2.11 0.70 1.17 0.47 1.64 0.47 8

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All Partners Asian Black/African-American Hispanic

Total # % Minority%

Minority Women

Total % % Women Total % %

Women Total % % Women

# of Offices

Northern Virginia 152 6.58 2.63 3.29 0.66 0.66 0.00 1.97 1.97 8Orange Co., CA 510 12.94 4.12 7.06 2.75 0.78 0.20 3.73 0.98 17Philadelphia 630 5.24 1.90 2.22 0.79 1.43 0.63 0.48 0.00 11Phoenix 524 6.87 1.91 1.72 0.76 0.00 0.00 2.67 0.95 12Pittsburgh 325 4.31 1.54 1.85 0.62 0.92 0.31 1.23 0.62 6Portland, OR 448 6.25 2.68 1.34 0.89 1.34 0.67 2.23 0.67 11Salt Lake City 156 3.85 1.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.56 1.28 7San Diego 277 13.36 4.33 5.78 2.53 0.72 0.36 4.69 1.08 16San Francisco 1,311 15.48 5.34 9.61 3.51 1.83 0.46 2.44 0.99 49San Jose area 709 19.18 6.35 13.54 4.51 1.13 0.42 2.96 0.99 36Seattle area 831 10.11 3.85 5.66 2.53 1.56 0.48 1.44 0.48 23St. Louis 774 5.43 1.42 0.90 0.00 2.45 0.78 1.29 0.52 11Tampa 145 5.52 0.69 0.69 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.83 0.69 7Washington, DC 4,558 10.14 3.93 4.28 1.49 2.81 1.29 2.15 0.66 96Wilmington 282 4.96 2.13 1.77 1.06 1.77 1.06 0.71 0.00 13

Source: The 2018-2019 NALP Directory of Legal Employers. The few Native American, Native Hawaiian and multi-racial lawyers reported are included in the overall minority percentages but are not reported separately. Some city information includes one or more offices in adjacent suburbs. Orange County includes offices in Costa Mesa, Irvine, and Newport Beach. The San Jose area includes offices in Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto and E. Palo Alto, Redwood Shores/Redwood City, and San Jose. The Los Angeles area includes offices in Santa Monica and Long Beach. The Northern New Jersey/Newark area includes offices in Newark, Roseland, Florham Park, Hackensack, Morristown, and Westfield. Northern Virginia includes offices in McLean/Tyson’s Corner, and Reston.

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Table 6. Associate Demographics at Law Firms — 2018

Associates by Race or Ethnicity

All Associates Asian Black/African-American Hispanic

Total #%

Minority% Minority

Women Total %%

Women Total %%

Women Total %%

Women# of

Offices

Total 45,807 24.22 13.52 11.69 6.64 4.48 2.55 4.71 2.45 1,009

By # of Lawyers Firm-wide:

100 or fewer lawyers 1,631 19.87 9.75 10.79 5.52 3.25 1.53 3.31 1.66 90101-250 lawyers 4,815 18.50 10.55 7.50 4.59 4.65 2.51 3.86 2.10 134251-500 lawyers 6,587 22.62 12.40 10.10 5.71 4.51 2.54 4.86 2.58 199501-700 lawyers 5,856 24.42 13.61 11.03 6.20 4.99 2.73 4.83 2.53 104701+ lawyers 26,918 25.86 14.54 13.03 7.40 4.40 2.59 4.88 2.51 482

Offices in:

Atlanta 919 20.46 11.43 6.86 3.26 8.49 5.01 2.94 1.85 23Austin 199 20.60 13.07 8.04 3.52 1.51 1.01 3.52 2.01 17Boston 1,832 19.43 11.19 9.77 5.90 3.55 1.80 3.98 2.24 34Charlotte 297 14.14 7.74 4.38 2.36 4.71 2.69 2.69 1.01 13Chicago 2,575 21.32 11.18 9.98 5.20 5.17 2.41 3.84 2.21 53Cincinnati 152 9.87 4.61 1.32 0.66 4.61 1.97 1.97 1.32 6Cleveland 283 5.65 3.53 2.47 1.41 1.77 1.06 0.35 0.35 6Columbus 199 15.58 7.04 4.02 2.01 6.03 1.51 2.51 1.51 10Dallas 908 21.92 9.69 7.93 2.86 4.07 2.31 6.06 2.86 32Denver 491 13.85 8.55 3.67 2.44 2.04 1.63 4.68 2.44 22Detroit area 227 17.18 9.25 4.85 2.64 7.49 3.52 1.76 1.32 9Ft. Lauderdale/ W. Palm Beach 95 14.74 10.53 1.05 0.00 7.37 4.21 5.26 5.26 8

Houston 1,281 25.92 12.02 9.45 3.67 5.07 2.97 7.88 3.28 43Indianapolis 162 14.20 9.26 4.94 3.09 4.94 3.70 3.09 1.85 6Kansas City 274 13.50 7.30 3.65 2.55 2.55 1.09 4.01 1.82 7Los Angeles 2,294 32.13 18.09 17.00 9.72 3.49 1.83 6.54 3.62 72Miami 282 47.16 25.53 2.84 1.06 5.67 1.42 36.52 21.63 14Milwaukee 320 8.13 3.13 2.19 0.94 1.56 0.00 1.88 0.94 8Minneapolis 606 13.70 6.77 4.95 2.81 3.63 2.15 1.65 0.66 20New York City 12,270 28.40 16.19 15.46 9.10 4.59 2.64 5.13 2.58 95Northern NJ/Newark area 331 21.15 11.18 10.57 6.04 3.32 2.11 4.83 2.42 8Northern Virginia 130 22.31 10.77 16.92 8.46 0.77 0.77 2.31 0.77 8

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All Associates Asian Black/African-American Hispanic

Total #%

Minority% Minority

Women Total %%

Women Total %%

Women Total %%

Women# of

Offices

Orange Co., CA 463 32.40 15.77 20.52 9.72 1.51 1.08 5.18 2.59 17Philadelphia 538 14.87 9.11 6.32 3.53 4.09 2.97 2.04 1.12 11Phoenix 214 14.95 6.07 4.21 1.40 2.80 0.93 5.14 2.34 12Pittsburgh 234 8.97 3.85 2.56 1.71 2.56 0.85 1.71 0.43 6Portland, OR 204 16.18 6.37 4.41 1.96 3.43 0.98 4.41 0.98 11Salt Lake City 102 7.84 2.94 0.00 0.00 1.96 0.98 2.94 1.96 7San Diego 355 27.61 12.96 13.80 6.76 2.25 1.41 6.48 1.97 16San Francisco 1,581 33.08 20.24 20.43 13.22 2.47 1.39 5.63 3.04 49San Jose area 1,189 42.72 23.13 30.19 16.23 2.69 1.43 4.96 2.78 36Seattle area 551 24.68 14.16 12.70 8.53 2.90 1.45 2.90 0.91 23St. Louis 394 16.75 9.39 5.33 3.55 6.60 4.31 2.28 0.76 11Tampa 88 12.50 6.82 2.27 1.14 3.41 2.27 5.68 3.41Washington, DC 4,947 23.47 13.40 10.71 6.10 6.15 3.76 3.50 2.00 96Wilmington 279 11.83 6.45 5.38 3.23 3.23 1.79 1.43 0.72 13

Source: The 2018-2019 NALP Directory of Legal Employers. The few Native American, Native Hawaiian and multi-racial lawyers reported are included in the overall minority percentages but are not reported separately. Some city information includes one or more offices in adjacent suburbs. Orange County includes offices in Costa Mesa, Irvine, and Newport Beach. The San Jose area includes offices in Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto and E. Palo Alto, Redwood Shores/Redwood City, and San Jose. The Los Angeles area includes offices in Santa Monica and Long Beach. The Northern New Jersey/Newark area includes offices in Newark, Roseland, Florham Park, Hackensack, Morristown, and Westfield. Northern Virginia includes offices in McLean/Tyson’s Corner, and Reston.

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Table 7. Lawyers with Disabilities — 2018

All Firms Firms of 250 or Fewer Lawyers

Firms of 251-500 Lawyers

Firms of 501-700 Lawyers

Firms of 701+ Lawyers

# Reported

% of Total

# Reported

% of Total

# Reported

% of Total

# Reported

% of Reported

# Reported

% of Total

Partners 167 0.52% 31 0.33% 33 0.51% 21 0.49% 82 0.69%Associates 127 0.46 13 0.25 28 0.63 18 0.43 68 0.50All lawyers 368 0.53 52 0.30 73 0.57 52 0.52 191 0.64

Note: Figures for lawyers with disabilities are based on 693 offices/firms reporting counts, including zero, in all lawyer categories. Counts of individuals with disabilities, including zero, cover 69,854 lawyers. Because so few summer associates with disabilities were reported (15 total), they are not included in the table.

Table 8. LGBT Lawyers — 2018

All Firms Firms of 100 or Fewer Lawyers

Firms of 101-250 Lawyers

Firms of 251-500 Lawyers

Firms of 501-700 Lawyers

Firms of 701 + Lawyers

# Reported

% of Total # Reported % of

Total # Reported % of Total # Reported

% of Reported

# Reported

% of Total

# Reported

% of Total

Partners 900 2.11% 45 2.08% 130 1.88% 158 1.87% 105 1.93% 462 2.33%Associates 1,581 3.80 39 2.99 90 2.25 194 3.25 210 4.02 1,048 4.17Other lawyers 346 2.37 6 0.77 33 1.98 61 2.38 44 2.24 202 2.65

All lawyers 2,827 2.86 90 2.12 253 2.01 413 2.43 359 359 1,7121 3.26Summer Associates 333 5.73 4 1.94 17 3.77 38 5.11 42 5.32 232 6.42

Note: Figures for LGBT lawyers are based on 914 offices/firms reporting counts, including zero, in all lawyer categories; figures for LGBT summer associates are based on 594 offices/firms with a summer program and reporting counts, including zero. Overall, LGBT counts, including zero, cover 98,942 lawyers and 5,807 summer associates.

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